The Top 100 Alien Invasion Films of All Time

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The Top 100 Alien Invasion Films of All Time
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Ranking
Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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Ranking
131 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter R -
236 Predator 1987 John McTiernan R -
241 The Avengers 2012 Joss Whedon PG13 -
292 Avengers: Infinity War 2018 Anthony Russo, Joe Russo PG13 -
371 Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve PG13 -
414 Men in Black 1997 Barry Sonnenfeld PG13 -
428 Avengers: Endgame 2019 Anthony Russo, Joe Russo PG13 -
458 They Live 1988 John Carpenter R -
532 Edge of Tomorrow 2014 Doug Liman PG13 -
555 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise G -
559 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
630 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich PG13 -
633 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman PG -
799 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron PG13 -
1174 Night of the Creeps 1986 Fred Dekker R -
1199 The World's End 2013 Edgar Wright R -
1224 Superman II 1980 Richard Lester PG -
1296 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby NR -
1323 Attack the Block 2011 Joe Cornish R -
1334 A Quiet Place 2018 John Krasinski PG13 -
1385 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer R -
1483 Annihilation 2018 Alex Garland R -
1594 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin G -
1635 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder R -
1742 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes PG13 -
1878 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan PG13 -
1898 Nope 2022 Jordan Peele R -
2095 Pacific Rim 2013 Guillermo del Toro PG13 -
2409 Lifeforce 1985 Tobe Hooper R -
2430 The Blob 1988 Chuck Russell R -
2598 Zack Snyder’s Justice League 2021 Zack Snyder R -
2705 Destroy All Monsters 1968 Ishirô Honda G -
2789 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton PG13 -
2790 Transformers 2007 Michael Bay PG13 -
2955 Prey 2022 Dan Trachtenberg R -
2966 Killer Klowns from Outer Space 1988 Stephen Chiodo PG13 -
3116 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
3222 Bad Taste 1987 Peter Jackson NR -
3306 Men in Black II 2002 Barry Sonnenfeld PG13 -
3465 Man of Steel 2013 Zack Snyder PG13 -
3471 Invaders from Mars 1953 William Cameron Menzies NR -
3476 Space Jam 1996 Joe Pytka PG -
3502 Monsters 2010 Gareth Edwards R -
3503 Monster Zero 1965 Ishirô Honda G -
3591 Predator 2 1990 Stephen Hopkins R -
3628 Captain Marvel 2019 Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck PG13 -
3647 The X-Files 1998 Rob Bowman PG13 -
3898 Body Snatchers 1993 Abel Ferrara R -
3966 The Faculty 1998 Robert Rodriguez R -
4257 Bumblebee 2018 Travis Knight PG13 -
4323 Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla 1974 Jun Fukuda G -
4418 V 1983 Kenneth Johnson NR -
4509 Critters 1986 Stephen Herek PG13 -
4990 The Arrival 1996 David Twohy PG13 -
5036 Earth vs. the Flying Saucers 1956 Fred F. Sears NR -
5089 The Thing 2011 Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. R -
5517 The Day of the Triffids 1962 Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis NR -
5523 Men in Black III 2012 Barry Sonnenfeld PG13 -
5755 Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 Edward D. Wood Jr. NR -
5912 Evolution 2001 Ivan Reitman PG13 -
6003 I Come in Peace 1990 Craig R. Baxley R -
6015 Ender's Game 2013 Gavin Hood PG13 -
6070 This Island Earth 1955 Joseph M. Newman NR -
6185 V: The Final Battle 1984 Richard T. Heffron PG -
6206 Invaders from Mars 1986 Tobe Hooper PG -
6244 Monsters Vs. Aliens 2009 Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon PG -
6481 Sphere 1998 Barry Levinson PG13 -
6573 Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut 2006 Richard Donner PG -
6762 Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. 1966 Gordon Flemyng NR -
7043 The Puppet Masters 1994 Stuart Orme R -
7080 Ultimate Avengers 2006 Curt Geda, Steven E. Gordon PG13 -
7248 Venom 2018 Ruben Fleischer PG13 -
7373 I Married a Monster from Outer Space 1958 Gene Fowler Jr. NR -
7483 Village of the Damned 1995 John Carpenter R -
7544 Eternals 2021 Chloé Zhao PG13 -
7731 V/H/S/2 2013 Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Adam Wingard, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Evans NR -
7867 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2009 Michael Bay PG13 -
7899 Justice League: War 2014 Jay Oliva PG13 -
7908 Taken 2002 Tobe Hooper, Breck Eisner, John Fawcett, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Jeremy Kagan, Michael Katleman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Bryan Spicer, Jeff Woolnough, Thomas J. Wright NR -
8013 Critters 2: The Main Course 1988 Mick Garris PG13 -
8130 The Mysterians 1957 Ishirô Honda NR -
8174 Cowboys & Aliens 2011 Jon Favreau PG13 -
8323 Xtro 1982 Harry Bromley Davenport R -
8501 Not of This Earth 1957 Roger Corman NR -
8513 The Flash 2023 Andy Muschietti PG13 -
8570 Godzilla 2000 1999 Takao Okawara PG -
8736 Impostor 2002 Gary Fleder PG13 -
8831 The Andromeda Strain 2008 Mikael Salomon NR -
8871 The Deadly Spawn 1983 Douglas McKeown R -
8896 Dreamcatcher 2003 Lawrence Kasdan R -
9039 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2001 Hironobu Sakaguchi PG13 -
9133 Strange Invaders 1983 Michael Laughlin PG -
9136 Grabbers 2012 Jon Wright NR -
9526 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2011 Michael Bay PG13 -
9810 The Invasion 2007 Oliver Hirschbiegel PG13 -
9919 Battle: Los Angeles 2011 Jonathan Liebesman PG13 -
10088 Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell 1968 Hajime Satô PG -
10135 Alien vs. Predator 2004 Paul W.S. Anderson PG13 -
10447 The Tomorrow War 2021 Chris McKay PG13 -
10491 The Lathe of Heaven 1980 Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton NR -

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